I have an adage that applies so well to this and that is: "while it is often the differences that attract us to another it will be the similarities that will keep us there for the long term."
What happens in a healthy relationship is that your attraction to your partner may be for the qualities that they have that you would like to own yourself. If you are open to attaining those qualities, as they would be of the characteristics that you possess that they might not, then each of you becomes more rounded within yourselves. To know all about it you must do short courses in Islamabad. This then leads to more closeness with each other.
Expectations - Rightly or wrongly we all have expectations of each other. Some of these you know consciously and have no problem in articulating. Others however are located within our subconscious mind and come from our early life experiences during which we made decisions about how life was going to pan out for us.
The experiences you have are both in terms of how those most influential in your life, starting with your parents, responded to you as a child together with your observations of how these people responded to each other for more do short courses in islamabad.
So believe that you have a right to expect certain things from your partner and know that they have the same right to expect certain things from you, and not as a God given right but as your right as a human being to be treated with dignity and respect.
Personalities and families of origin - This is where I do most of my work as a Counsellor at short courses in rawalpindi . As spoken about previously we all come with our own baggage from our families of origin. That's human nature and not intended in any way to be a slur on your parenting.
Each of our responsibility as we enter adulthood is to review our earlier lives to check for any conflict in what we learned as a child and how we now want to live our lives as adults. This is despite how perfect our parents may have been because there is one critical difference and that is about who we are as people.
Our personalities are different from our parents, for all sorts of reasons not the least of which relates to our life experiences. Because of this, and because you now live in another time in history, what suited them and their circumstances is simply not going to apply to you and your circumstances.
A simple example of this has come up in my own family just recently. I was a stay-at-home mum when my children were growing up. This suited my personality and my life circumstances perfectly. Now my children have to revise this practice as they consider their life's situations and their own personalities with regards to their children. And that is just as it should be.
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